Treasury: Sick Leave

(asked on 25th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of his Department's staff have had days off sick because of mental illness or stress in each of the last three years; and how many days off that amounted to in each of those years.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 30th April 2018

The number of working days absent, the number of people absent and the proportion of people absent with mental illness can be found in the following table:

Year

Category

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

Total number of days absent in year

935

424

588.5

Number of people absent with mental illness

36

34

31

Proportion of paid HMT staff

3%

3%

2%

Note: HM Treasury does not breakdown mental disorders to particular types, all mental illness, including stress, is rolled into this one category

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